DFW Photo Expo 2013 was engaging, educational, and inspiring with several great speakers that taught me a lot about photography.
To learn more about photography and grow my skills I signed up to go to the DFW Photo Expo 2013 in Arlington, Texas.
It was pretty cool, I met some cool people there and learned quite a bit from professional photographers. My brother Samuel went with me.
I took some notes from the photographer talks I went to, here are some of the highlights:
Clay Blackmore – Photograph Everyone
- Natural expressions
- 2/3 view – don’t let nose crop the eye
- Camera looks both ways – when you are excited they get excited
- Poses – basic: head leans with body & feminine: head is tilted different direction from body
- Camera position, move camera for seemingly different poses, get different angles of same pose with same lighting
- Turn and tip head towards light
- Don’t let shoulders be level
Brandon Heiss – Off-Camera Lighting
- Start with hair light, don’t let light onto face
- “Manlier” lighting. Two soft boxes with grids pointing opposite at ears
Frank Veronsky – Fashion Images
- Fashion shoots with a “story”
- Give model something to do
- 4 Elements: Light, Background, Gesture, and Subject
Tony Corbell – Power of Light
- Diffusion in a can – spray fog
- Lights falls off by the square, law of the inverted square
- Highlight accent light, two stops below what I’m shooting
- Understanding Light has two elements: tools & controls
- Posing: Bend it hard or bend it soft, hard and soft angles
- Posing: Men – L and C curves, women S curves
- Daylight rule, ISO match shutter at f16